The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-01
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Not in many years have there heen 80
many untenantsd houses on B rgen
Heights as there are this year. Very many
families have moved, and teams With great
loads OF furniture behind them have been
the features of the streets for many days
back. Yesterday was M especially busy
day. Tomorrow will be equally active
Very many of the city's tenants last year
are going to Brooklyn, and the Jersey sub
urbs. New York and Brooklyn people are
coming in. But the most OF the moving
has been from one pant Of the city to an
other
Mr.. Francis S. Emmons, of the real
| estate firm of Emmons Il Co., at the Ber-
gen Junction explained the occasion for the
presence of the multitude of 6 70 Let >"
segins in the B rgen section. . It is due, .
| he said, ''to the number of small houses
that have teen recently put up in this part
of the city. Within the last year or so 165
new fourteen foot houses have been pat up.
People are moving into en-, and the $500
a year houses are rather going begging. "
| At the same time, ne said, speaking gen
since the season of 80 as it has been t is
year The firms sale since January LIST,
have been unusually heavy.
John A. Lewis, the Bergen Square real
estate agent, said that nearly all the houses
he had on hand to lent have been rented.
The cheaper ones are all taken. Some of
his tenants of $50 and S35 per month house
have in fat moved cut of them into the
smaller houses he had ON his list. Tie de-
mand for higher priced house has not been
active.
! Ex-Jastice Lawrence, of Lawrence &
| Cronan, SAID that the $40 to $50 houses he
had Oh his books, have rented only fairly
| John n. BruDz, of Brunz & Lamcken, on
| Ocean avenue, told the reporter practically
the same thing; but all the agents agreed
with Mr.. EaNnons that the sales had been
heavier than usual his season.
In the lower section of the city the real
estate agents come to the front with excel
lent reports. They are all particula rly
pleased with their sales.
Finance Commissioner Joseph Warren
who runs q longer line of real estate trans
actions than any other agent in the city,
said, when visited at his Office, No 331
Grove street, that real estate is on the
rise. His business has been much larger
since the first of January than ever before.
He has made more sales this year than he
ever made during the same period of any
former year, and better prices secured
The demand made on him for houses has
far exceeded the number which he had on
hand The demand for small houses, say
OF eight or ten rooms, ard renting at from
$25 to $35, has been yerg large, more than
double the number on hand. The higher
priced houses for which $40 to $40 are
80 al ora lose IN dan1apd ay,t a ya4 ra0t
so well. This class of houses is generally
rented for the year during the month of
February, the tenants generally remaining
for several years, and lie lsing them from
year to Year. He said the demand for
floors Is fair, mostly from young married
people who find them cheaper than fats.
The demand for fats is quite fair for the
better class, for which the usual rent is
about $35. The cheaper fats rent we'll at
from SIS to $25, ana are taken by small
| families, but the large ones avoid fats as
much as possible, oDe reason being that the
average fiat has had five or six rooms.
Generally speaking rents are quite up and
| probably will advance by next year.
Mr.. Louis +. Betcher remarked to a
News man that the demand for small
houses was on the increase, and very much
| larger than he could supply. He said that
were picked up at once. He cannot rent
the larger onces which rent at $40 to SIS so
| well when they become empty. He gen.
orally secures the rental of ibis class of
houses in the Winter, and seldom secures
| lease for more than one year.
The call for flats and floors is not so
large as 1t was last year. He thinks that
flats are on the decline and that the prices
will come down, as public opinion is set
ling toward small houses, which seem to
be within the reach of most people. Nearly
| all the medium sized houses which he has
control of on the hill have been taken by
New Workers, who come to Jersey in search
Of cheaper rent and 60 on the heights, as
it is next bast to the country.
Mr.. John L. Craven, of Jshn L. Craven
| and Son, said that the demand made on
his firm for large houses was not large
| and they do not rent very well. Nest of
his callers ask for small houses, and when
they are not to be got take = fat on a
floor. He has no trouble in renting the
medium priced fiat. Az for the poor
classes they are on the move continually
where ever their work takes them, and
hire only by the month.
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